LONGVIEW, Texas — Construction could being next week in Longview on a municipal skate park, and plans are being finalized for extra parking spaces at Akin Park and the Guthrie Trail, Parks and Recreation Director Scott Caron said Monday. Meanwhile, improvements to the Cargill Long Trail are in flux as the city wrangles with a natural gas company about pipelines along the trail.
Contractors completed Phase 1 of the Guthrie Trail last year from Fourth Street to Akin Park, and construction of phases 2 and 3 could begin next month.
Akin Park has only about six parking spaces, making it difficult for Guthrie Trail users who don’t live in the surrounding neighborhood, Caron told the city’s Parks and Recreation Advisory Board at its meeting Monday. He called it the biggest parking challenge on the entire stretch of the Guthrie Trail aside from the Cargill Long Trail parking lot on Fourth Street.
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